Not entirely true, inspectors continue to put more and more emission restriction policies on domestic brands every year, while they continue to turn their heads to brands like toyota for example, and let them use the standards that were placed back in 1987, and not to the same standards they hold the domestic brands to. Maybe cuase some (not all) import brands are placing money in the pockets of the right individuals to make that happen. That's probably why since Chrysler has joined the Daimler team, they've made such leaps and bounds in quality, refinement, and peformance since '03.